Greg White at the Wall Street Journal has a gloomy outlook on the Russian economy today, and it looks like once again that Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin (who has been subpoenaed to appear at the Khodorkovsky trial) has found himself at war with o...
A blow to the Nabucco pipeline as the Iraqi government has rejected the $8 billion plan to export gas from Kurdistan. ‘I consider South Stream to have every chance of being realized earlier than Nabucco’, says Energy Minister Ser...
Economists are troubled by data showing that industrial output decreased by a record 16.9% year on year in April. Wage arrears have however fallen for the first time in four months. Goldman Sachs has said that GDP will contract more th...
TODAY: Attempts to rescue Georgia security talks following Russia and South Ossetia walkout; compulsory income declarations extended; redefining US-Russia nuclear ties; Medvedev aide launches thinly-veiled attack on Putin Russia and South Ossetia ...
It would be a mistake to always assume that South Ossetia and Abkhazia are both identical Russian surrogate territories. South Ossetia, as described by some, is ruled by a group of bandits living off smuggling rents from the Roki tunnel, and...
I had meant to link over to this item on the Russia! blog a few days ago, but I guess I got caught up reading thousands of Twitter feeds on the elections in India (while learning nothing new). Trolling LiveJournal for the best of the best, Marina ...
Gabriel Stein, chief of research at Lombard Street Research, talks with the Financial Times about why Russia’s economic stimulus policy package has failed to produce results. Mr Stein says Russia is paying the price for its double exposure t...
Today the Russian government has announced a 16.9% drop in industrial production in the year to April, which was the sixth consecutive month of contraction, exceeding forecasts by the banks. The slowdown in industry has the potential to be p...
In case there were any lingering doubts left among about the morality deficit of the United Nation’s beleaguered Human Rights Council (HRC), this article by Ibn Warraq published in City Journal puts the case to rest. Given that the UN ...
There were few surprises this weekend over how the Russian police handled a sizable protest by gay rights activists in Moscow, who sought to take advantage of the televised Eurovision event to bring attention to their persecuted status. As h...
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